Hail Caesarstone
Caesarstone hosted a cocktail party at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts to launch the new Metropolitan collection of its quartz solid surfacing material.
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1—Sergei Trunov, senior project manager at electrical and mechanical engineers Smith + Andersen; figure3’s Michela Kochanski, project designer, and Katherine Friedbacher, team lead. 2—Jason Branco, sales rep, and Laura Potkidis, architectural sales rep, at stone and tile supplier Ciot; and Christian Rocca, architectural sales, Caesarstone. 3—Junior designers Christy Stopfel, Bartlett+Associates; Alicia Correa, Justine Villaneuva and Danielle Toner, Cecconi Simone; and Cole Barkman, interior designer, Red Studio Architects. 4—Caesarstone marketing’s Sabrina Mammone, intern; Felicia Augurusa, specialist; and Elizabeth Margles, VP. 5—Caesarstone’s Sam Cinelli, Ontario regional manager; Stephen Mick, CFO; and Larry Town, VP sales.
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The Design Exchange’s fourth annual Design Auction attracted an enthusiastic horde of designers, DX patrons and fashionistas vying for coveted finds, arrayed along the perimeter of the Trading Floor, from firms such as Arc’teryx (clothing); Bang & Olufsen (consumer electronics); Cutler and Gross (sunglasses); and EQ3, Flos, Molteni and Walter Knoll (furniture).
1—The Kidd brothers: Charles, financial services manager, Pickering Honda; and Hugh, OCAD industrial design grad and design sales associate at home-goods retailer Hopson Grace; Nancy McConnell, owner, Gibson’s Cleaners; and her daughter, Linley, business analyst at Deloitte. 2—Ben Rahn, principal at architectural photography studio A Frame; fashion writer and editor Ceri Marsh; James O’Connor, sponsorship VP at A&C (formerly Arts and Communications Counselors); and his life partner, Michael Taylor, partner at Taylor Smyth Architects. 3—Eric Sze-Lang Chan, the digital artist known as “eepmon,” who created the Synthesis Parka for Canada Goose; and Yenting Chen, founder of bespoke menswear firm Duly Equipped. 4—Interior designer Meg Ryley, principal designer at residential design firm MCR Interiors; and her client, Natalie Aziz. 5—Fashion lawyer and trademark agent Anjli Patel; Shauna Levy (daughter of Steven), DX president and CEO; and Sandra De Luca, principal at furnishings retailer South Hill Home. 6—Auction co-chairs Isabella Romano, founder of real estate marketing firm Ohme; and interior designer Erika Floysvik, founder of Fia Interiors. 7—Energetic auction emcees Shai DeLuca-Tamasi, who heads his eponymous interior design firm; and Shoana Jensen, CityLine lifestyle expert. 8—Oriana Loduca, principal at interior design and styling firm Design Inc.; Stephanie Gallo, creative director at Statum Designs (part of the team that created the Hudson’s Bay blanket-wrapped storage ottoman, one of the evening’s auction items); and Lisa Reichardt, designer at finishes specialist Swift Design Consulting.
Sile and the Family Stone The grand opening of Cosentino’s Surfaces showroom in 2014 helped confirm the Castlefield Design District’s stature as a designer resource destination. The newly redesigned showroom opened, in June, as Cosentino City, artfully displaying the company’s Silestone, Dekton, Sensa and Natural Stone brands. 1—Eduardo Cosentino, EVP of Global Sales and CEO of Cosentino North America; and Silestone Global Brand Ambassador, Cindy Crawford. 2—Peter Tim, owner, Crown Marble & Granite, whose firm fabricated the stone and Dekton surfaces in the new showroom; and Lynn Thomas, manager at Irpinia Kitchens. 3—Karen Kang, national director, global exhibitions, IDS Canada; book designer Rob Gray of his self-named DesignWorks Studio; and his wife, interior designer Theresa Casey of her Casey Design Planning Group. 4— Susan Slat, designer, and Tania D’Uva, controller, Downsview Kitchens.
Hail and Farewell to Intercede
Micheline Bartlett, who presided over Intercede Design for 37 years — making her firm one of the longest-lived interior design practices in Toronto — was honored with a surprise retirement party attended by staff and clients at Drechsel Studio in Toronto. She had sold her business to Greg Quinn, owner and principal of XDesign. He plans to operate the two businesses autonomously, each maintaining their existing names and clients, under XDesign’s roof. 1—Moises Bartlett, husband of Micheline, was an Intercede project manager; the two met when he was Canadian Airlines’s facilities manager and she was designing their downtown Toronto ticket office; Micheline Bartlett; and Brian Liss, owner of the Liss Gallery in Yorkville. 2—Intercede’s long-time accountant, Elliott Kosher, chartered accountant and partner at Segal and Partners; and Maria Biber, Intercede senior associate; and XDesign’s Greg Quinn. 3—Celia Spaulding, higher-education facilities consultant; Sally Curtis, Intercede office manager; and Enrique (husband of Maria) Biber, sales exec., financial services, IBM. 4— Intercede’s Denise Curtis (daughter of Sally), admin manager; Alejandra Ramirez, junior designer; and designers Christine Filicetti, Ted Choi and Pericles Voulgaris.
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